How to Make Homemade Toilet Fizz Bombs (Only Three Ingredients)

When I first saw the recipe for these toilet bombs on Maria’s Self about a year ago, I thought it looked super awesome. I was still in the beginning stages of learning about green cleaning and it seemed like a more “advanced” recipe to me. Well, trust me, it’s not. I just didn’t know what citric acid was yet. This recipe is ridiculously simple and that’s what makes it so great!

There’s something so satisfying about dropping one of these into water and watching it fizz away. And they smell so fresh. Obviously these can’t replace cleaning your toilet, but they do deodorize smells and kill bacteria! So they are great for in between cleans.

It cost me $3.91 to make one batch of these toilet bombs. For me, that was about 30 toilet fizz bombs. And they’re green and all natural. And so much fun to use.

Homemade Toilet Fizz Bombs

Ingredients:

Directions:

Put the essential oil mix you want to use together in a small spray bottle and set aside

Mix baking soda and citric acid together carefully. If you want, you can use a medical mask to ensure you don’t breathe in any fumes from mixing these together.

Slowly spray the essential oils on the baking soda and citric acid while mixing until you’ve used all 90 drops. It should fizz a little bit when the moisture touches the mixture, but if there is excessive fizzing you are spraying too quickly. The mixture should start to clump and look like the picture on the right above when it is ready to be put into molds

If necessary, you can add a small amount of water in addition to the oils to help bind the baking soda and citric acid together. Don’t use too much or they won’t fizz when they touch water

Put the mixture into a silicone mold- or you can press it into an ice cube tray

Let the bombs dry for at least 6 hours, then remove from the molds and store in a container with a tight lid

Drop into the toilet and fizz away!

These things are awesome. It is so fun to let them fizz and do their job. And they smell great. Who needs a scented candle in the bathroom when you have fizzy toilet bombs?

And you gotta love it when you can make a cute shape out of a cleaning product. I love my little hearts! I also made some cool star shapes and some plain cubes. But the hearts were definitely the cutest.

I might run out of these toilet fizz bombs quickly because they are so much fun too use… let’s hope I can exercise some self control and use them only when I need to.

Try making some yourself and let me know how it goes!

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My guess is that you put too much moisture in the mix. Or, if you live in a particularly humid area and your home is humid, that might be an issue to The only way I can think to fix it would be to add more citric acid and baking soda to make it drier. I don’t know if it will help for sure, but it’s probably worth a try. It can take over 24 hours to harden as well so if you haven’t given it enough time, that’s another thing to try. Hope this helps!

I just made these and I didn’t, have any trouble getting the mixture to harden.
I used lemon juice instead of the citric acid.-1/2 cup. My skin is burning where the peppermint touched and I had in rubber gloves

I popped out fizzies and put in a jar. Hubby was impressed until I came back and they are all collapsing/crumbling Why? They sat up for a good 15 hours or so. They were firm to the touch and didn’t crumble when I took out of the mold. Thx for advice! Would love to make these for gifts!

I used lemongrass & orange oils. I had quite a bit leftover and shaped them into balls and placed on parchment paper. It seemed as if mine wouldn’t stop rising in the tray. Maybe too much water? I tested one before it dried to be sure I didn’t mess it up(and to see if it’ll still work if it takes too long to dry) It fizzed right up after I dropped it into the toilet and my bathroom smells great. Thanks for sharing!

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